Sagé

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sagé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”).

rarermore common
  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 30K
  • GYGuyana1 in 44K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

11,207 people, 2010

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Kitts & Nevis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sage in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland and -Sage in SN Senegal.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Sagé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sagé
  1. Middle Englishsage(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchsage11th century(measured from records)
  3. Latin*sapius(measured from records)
  4. Latinsapere“to taste“to taste, to discern, to be wise”(measured from records)

From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.

Sources 6

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sagé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sagé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—11,2071 in 30K19KSage111
BR Brazil—721 in 2.9M72——
PL Poland—621 in 617K33——
ES Spain—531 in 944K53Sage4
CH Switzerland—451 in 187K45Sage11
FI Finland—371 in 151K37——
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—171 in 3.2K17——
GY Guyana—171 in 44K17——
SN Senegal#935———-Sage4

11,207 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sagé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Japanese, Korean

    Also written Sage, Seiji, Sâge, 세이지, Şağe

  • Spanish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sage, Seghe, Sâge, Sãge, Säge

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sagé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sagé mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Sagé a male or female name?
Sagé is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Sagé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Sagé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sage.
Where is Sagé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sagé is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sagé?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,207 people named Sagé in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
How common is Sagé compared with other names?
In Senegal, Sagé is the 935th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sagé” — the 935th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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